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Good Tuesday morning!
What the hell just happened? Doug Steinhardt, one month into his campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, dropped out last night, citing “unforeseen professional obligations.”
This is, to say the least, unexpected. And while I can’t say for sure what those professional obligations are (Steinhardt is a partner at a politically-connected law firm with a lot of government contracts), I know this: He made the risky calculation to become inseparable from President Donald Trump in an overwhelmingly anti-Trump state. He issued an advertisement doubling dow